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Pentstemon Murrayanus. Mr. Morray’s | 
ScARLET PENTSTEMON. 
Class and Order. 
¥ Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Scropnutarina. ) 
Generic Character. 
_ Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla tubulosa, subventricosa, bi-_ 
—- Jabiata. Filamentum 5 sterile. Capsula bilocularis, bival-— 
___ Vis, dissepimento duplicato e marginibus valvarum inflexis 
demum bipartibili. Semina nuda. ei 
Specific Name and Character. 
Pentstemon Murrayanus ; elatus glaberrimus glaucus, foliis 
integerrimis oblongis inferioribus spathulatis superio- 
ribus seu bracteatis connato-perfoliatis, floribus race- 
mosis, corollis glaberrimis, tubo subcylindraceo longi- - 
tudine staminum, filamento quinto nudo. 
A native of San Felipe, in Texas: discovered by Mr. 
Drummonp, in 1834, and by him sent to our gardens, where 
it promises to be a very great acquisition, being remarkable 
for its stately growth, its singularly glaucous and large 
foliage, and for the number and size and rich colouring of 
the flowers. 'The seeds arrived rather late in the spring of 
1835, so that, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, the autumn 
advanced rapidly upon us before the blossoms were gene- 
rally expanded. Under more favorable circumstances we 
may judge of the beauty of the plant, from the fact that, on 
_ one specimen, we counted eleven pairs of floral leaves, from 
_ the axils of which sprang two to four flower buds: and in 
one of the dried native specimens a single raceme had fifty- 
six blossoms. It will probably prove quite a hardy, her- 
baceous perennial. I am anxious it should bear the name 
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